Debra L. Olsson

Where a trial judge found an employee to be no longer disabled as of March 14, 2013 from the work-related injury she sustained on Aug. 3, 2012, the trial judge did not commit clear error when he accepted the opinion ...

Where a trial judge (1) denied an employee’s petition to review in which she alleges that she experienced a return of incapacity beginning in 1994 and continuing to the present and that the employer refuses to pay certain medical bills, ...

Where an employee has alleged that her incapacity increased or returned as of June 1, 1989 and that the description of her work-related injury should be amended to include her right hand and right wrist, that request must be denied ...

Where (1) a trial judge rendered a decision and decree denying an employee’s petition to review and (2) the employee is requesting that the fee of $25 for filing a claim of appeal and the estimated cost of a transcript ...

Where a trial judge dismissed the employee’s most recent petition for workers’ compensation benefits, there was no error in the judge’s conclusion that the employee’s allegations were barred by the doctrine of res judicata, that the employer was not responsible ...

Where a judge’s calculation of an employee’s average weekly wage was based on an average of the employee’s overtime earnings over a period of 52 weeks, that was error, as the employee worked only 14 weeks due to a recent ...

Where a trial judge (1) found that an employee suffered a work-related shoulder injury on April 11, 2013 resulting in partial incapacity from Sept. 13, 2013 to Sept. 25, 2013, and (2) denied the employee’s allegation that he also sustained ...

The workers’ compensation insurer on risk on the date of disability determines which of two successive insurers is liable to an employee with an occupational disease, the Rhode Island Workers’ Compensation Appellate Division has held. At the same time, the ...

Where a trial judge in a case involving successive insurers ordered benefits to be paid by the insurance company covering the employer for whom the claimant worked prior to 2012, that decision should be reversed, as the “date of disability” ...

The Rhode Island Supreme Court has agreed to hear full arguments in an appeal of the Workers’ Compensation Appellate Division’s holding in Powers v. Warwick Public Schools (Lawyers Weekly No. 72-008-15). In late 2015, the Appellate Division ruled in a ...